Ishbira
إشبيرة
A large, populous city on the Rhine, with Bazla on the western bank of the same river; the author gives forty miles west to Bardūn 1.
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Ishbira is a large, populous town on the river Rin, and Bazla is on the west bank of the river too, according to al-Idrisi. He says that forty miles lie between it and Bardun to the west. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 867
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.867
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